Introducing Mobile Application Development for Android - EGJUG

112 Pages·2011·1.53 MB·English

by  Ahmed Misbah

Introducing Mobile Application
Development for Android
Presented by:
Ahmed Misbah
Agenda
Introduction
Android SDK Features
Developing an Android Application
Android Market
Android Application Trends
INTRODUCTION
What is Android?
Google’s mobile operating system
Based on Linux Kernel
Offers an SDK and NDK
Latest SDK version is 3.0/3.1 (Honeycomb)
Architecture Overview
Linux Kernel
Android uses Linux for its memory
management, process management,
networking, and other operating system
services
Native Libraries
Shared libraries all written in C or C++
Compiled for the particular hardware
architecture used by the phone
Preinstalled by the phone vendor
Can be developed using NDK
Native Libraries (cont’d)
Surface Manager
2D, 3D Graphics
Media Codecs
SQL Database
Browser Engine
Android Runtime
Dalvik VM
Google’s implementation of Java
Optimized for mobile devices
Runs .dex files which are more compact and
efficient than standard .class files
Core Java libraries
Not those of JSE or JME but have some similarities
Application Framework
Activity Manager
Content providers
Resource Manager
Location Manager
Notification Manager